Fastening device for skates



(No Model.)

E. H. BARNEY. FASTENING DEVICE FOR SKATES.

No. 358,716. PatentedMaJh 1, 1887.

llnrre STATES ATENT Grinch.

EVERETT H. BARNEY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR SKATES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,716, dated March 1, 1887.

Application filed January 17,1887. Serial No. 224,528. (No model.)

tains to improvements in fastening devices therefor; and t-heinvcntion consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the said fastening devices, all as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figures 1 and 2 are plan views of a skate provided with fastening devices embodying my improvements, Fig. 1 showing said devices in the position which they cupy when the skate is fastened to the boot, and Fig. 2 showing said devices in the position they occupy when the skate is released from the boot. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the skate-fastening devices and of the screwed end of the clamp-rod of the skate, said figure showing the said parts somewhat enlarged as compared with those shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

In the drawings, a is the runner of the skate, to which the heel-plate 4 and the soleplate 5 are secured by means of the well-known ordinary bracket constructions. The heelclamp 2, having thereon an ordinary troughlike projection,o, has the usual sliding connection under the heelplate 4 by the entrance of said projection 4) between the sides of the heel-plate bracket in the well-known manner of constructing and arranging said parts. The sole-clamps 7 are constructed and attached to the sole-plate 5 in the well-known manner, whereby when they are, by the fastening devices of the skate, as hereinafter described, given alongitudinal movement under the soleplate, their upturned ends are clamped against and released from the edges of the shoe-sole.

The screw-threaded clamp-rod 3 is a well known feature of skate construction, and passes through the heel-clamp 2 toward the rear end of the sole-clamps, as shown, its rear portion lying within the said trough-like extension '0 on the heel-clamp, and its rear end has an engagement with the latter to draw it toward the rear end of the heel-plate 4, when operated by the clamp-lever of the fastening devices, as below described.

The rear ends of the sole-clamps 7 are united by a pivot, 00, which passes loosely through one end of a connecting-strap, 9, and through the ends of said sole-clamps beneath said strap, and said pivot 00 is perforated transversely of its aXis, to permit the screw-threaded end of the clamp-rod 3 to pass through it without engaging with it, so that said rod may have a free longitudinal movementthrough said pivot, or in order that the latter may have a free movement on the screwed part of said rod.

A pivot-nut, 2, has a screw-connection with the clamp-rod 3, the latter passing transversely through said not and through said pivot :13, as aforesaid. One end of the clamp-lever 8 has a pivotal attachment with the upper end of said nut 2, said lever being adapted to have a vibratory motion on said pivot substantially in the plane of the sole and heel plates of the skate, for the purpose of clamping and unelamping the fastening devices of the latter, as below described, said clamp-lever having projecting from its pivoted end a stop-arm 0, which constitutes a stop which arrests the swinging movement of the clamp -lever by striking the pivot at when said lever is brought to the fastening position shown in Fig. 1, thereby leaving the free end of said lever in the position relative to the clamp-rod 3 and the border of the heelplate shown in said figu re. A connection is made between the clamplever 8 and the pivot 00 and the sole-clamps which are attached to said pivot by the connecting-strap 9, one end of which is attached to said lever by the pivot e, the last-named pivot having a connection with the clamp-lever to one side of the point of connection of the said nut z with said lever, the result of the saidlocation of the pivot e to one side of the pivot-point of the nut z with said lever being that when the lever is swung to the position shown in Fig. 1 said pivot e is carried past the center of said nut or to one side of a longitudinal center line drawn through the clamprod 3.

From the above description of the skatefastenings it is seen that the pivotx constitutes the point of resistance when the sole-clamps 7 are drawn against the shoe-sole, and the pivot IOO nut z the point of resistance when the heelclamp (through its connection with the rod 3) is forced against the heel; also, that the strap 9 and the lever 8 constitute the element of connection between said two points of resistance, or on the line of the latter, whereby the latter-named points are moved apart to free the said clamps, and are drawn together to force the latter against the sole and heel of a boot to fasten the skate thereto.

The operation of my improvements is as follows: In placing the skate on a boot and fastening it thereto, the, said heel and sole clamps are adjusted to such proper positions relative to the rear side of the heel and the edges of the sole as permits the boot to be placed on the skate and within said clamps. This having been done while the clamplever is swung open, as in Fig. 2, thereby bringing the strap 9 out of line with the clamp-rod 3, said lever is swungto the position shown in Fig. l,thereby forcing said points of resistance toward each other and drawing said clamps forcibly against the heel and sole of the boot; and when the free end of said lever approaches the clamprod the pivot e, by which the end of the strap 9 is connected to said lever, passes by or to one side of the axial center of the nut z and the pivot 00, (or the line of said resistance) and finally the lever comes to rest in the position shown in Fig. 1, its stop-arm 0 striking the pivot m and arresting the lever, sothat its free end is prevented from swinging under the heel-plate and making it inconvenient to grasp it to unclamp the skate. In the above action of the said resistance the strain of the locked clamps tends to hold the lever firmly in said locked position. The within-described fastening devices are detachable from the skate without the use of any tools, by simply unscrewing the clamp-rod from the nut 7, thereby affording the'greatest facility for removing any of the fastening devices of the skate for any purpose.

What I claim as my invention is-- 1. The clamp-rod 3, the sole-clamp pivot 00, perforated to allow the end of said rod to pass loosely through it, the nut 2, having an engagement with said clamp-rod, the clamp-lever 8, pivoted on said nut, and the strap 9, pivoted by one end to said sole-clamp pivot and having its opposite end pivoted to said lever toone side of the axial center of said nut, combined and operating substantially as set forth.

2. The clamp rod 3, the sole-clamp pivot a, perforated to allow the end of said rod to pass loosely through it, the nut 2, having an engagement with said clamp-rod, the clamp-lever 8, pivoted on said nut and having a stoparm thereon for engagement with said clamppivot, and the strap 9, pivoted by one end to said sole-clamp pivot and having its opposite end pivoted to said lever to one side of the axial center of said nut, combined and operating substantially as set forth.

EVERETT H. BARNEY'. Witnesses:

G. M. CHAMBERLAIN, W. F. RICE. 

